January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
14h 14m
English
Azure SQL, by default, does not provide access to any requests. Source IP addresses should be explicitly whitelisted for access to SQL Server. There is an option to allow all Azure-based services access to the SQL database as well. This option includes virtual machines hosted on Azure.
The firewall can be configured at the server level instead of the database level. The Allow access to Azure services option allows all services, including virtual machines, to access the database hosted on the logical server:

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